RE: Life is at the center of everything
March 12, 2014 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2014 at 4:22 am by Alex K.)
(March 11, 2014 at 11:06 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Just more proof that Blowjob has no clue what he's even talking about. Einstein proved in Relativity there is no absolute reference point in space time. That's what "Relativity" means. His saying that anything anywhere is absolutely in one position with respect to another is just more proof he has no actual background in science, and NEEDS to make it look like he can play with the big kids. He can't even keep up with the infants.
It's you who seems to have a misunderstanding here, Bubby Balls. We are not talking about relative positions in spacetime, we are talking about scaling laws. So unless you want to argue that the world is exactly conformally symmetric on top of Einsteinian relativity, scales are not relative. Also, you seem to misunderstand special relativity. While absolute positions are not defined, relative positions are. They may be dependent on the frame of reference, but there is a well defined rest frame where distance can be specified uniquely for two objects at rest relative to each other. In a cosmological context, even an absolute local rest frame (albeit not absolute positions) can be defined by the vanishing CMB dipole, something that is not captured by relativity alone.